Winter Blah’s: 4 Fashion Fibs Debunked
I don’t know about you, but this weather is dragging me up and down with each random peak and pit of the temps. One day it’s below zero, the next it’s fifty-five degrees. The earth is so bipolar right now. Couple that with the anniversary of some difficult life events: my father’s death eight years […]
Moments of Love & Joy
Admission: The holidays have come and gone except for New Year’s, and with them all my good intentions of keeping focus on the Advent of Christ. I am easily distracted by the smallest details. I am also often overwhelmed by larger difficulties. Just like the new Christmas camera I’m still learning how to use, I […]
Advent Week Two: Peace?
Someone I love is struggling with addictions. Addictions that consume them more than any substance they consume. I planned to write about Advent of Peace this week, but preoccupation has interrupted peace. This blogpost is my flailing attempt to write about a peace I don’t always feel. But maybe God is unsettling me to help […]
Chile Colorado Recipe
Elise & I had a snow day! I was supposed to go to an ugly sweater women’s luncheon and take something, but I didn’t go because of the weather. I was planning to take a Mexican dish called chile colorado. Some people also call it mole. Elise has been asking me to teach her to […]
Waiting Together
I’m looking forward to Christmas now, though I’m not yet finished being grateful! I’m a day behind with this Advent post, but it was worth the wait to make a beautiful space at our table. I hope you’ll join me in the joy. It’s Christmas season– a beautiful time of light and hope. I felt […]
Bellas Conversaciones
A veces pienso que lo que le digo a Dios es demasiado trivial, demasiado impaciente, demasiado tonto, demasiado … demasiado_________ . Pero estoy muy equivocada. Él nos quiere escuchar. Adicionales pensamientos: En caso de que no lo hayan notado , no sólo trato de conocer a Dios intelectualmente , trato de experimentar […]
Beautiful Conversations
Sometimes I think what I have to say to God is too trivial, too impatient, too silly, too…too_________. But I’m so wrong. He desires to hear us. Bunny trail: In case you haven’t noticed, I don’t just attempt to know God intellectually, I try to experience God in the every day (though often I […]
Overflowing
Life can be so full, so joyous. It’s somewhat overwhelming. Do I gulp down the overflowing cup swiftly or let it spill about, sloshing joy wastefully over everything? Joy is a wasteful wanton thing, leaving little poignant thoughts behind to tease the moment from our limited memory. Yet fullness can be easily confused with comfort […]
October Photo Re-Cap: 3 Beautiful Insights continued
As promised, this is a review of Stitch Fix, an online personal style consult. Over-all I give Stitch Fix I signed up for my first “fix” on stitchfix.com in October. I was very excited to receive these four pieces in the mail with handy style suggestions on the little cards pictured above, plus… : this collar […]
October Photo Re-cap: 3 Beautiful Insights
This is a photo from a couple of October’s ago..but I love it because I’m leaning on my husband Curtis. We aren’t supposed to hold people on a pedestal, to regard them as a god, but I believe we are God’s hands and feet to each other. Once, as my husband Curtis and I […]
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